Republicans call House Intel Committee to #releasethememo on FISA, FBI

Republicans are clamoring for the public Discharge of a memo detailing alleged abuses of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) related to the special counsel’s investigation of potential Russian influence within the 2016 presidential election.

“The House must immediately make public the memo prepared by the Intelligence Committee regarding the FBI as well as also the Department of Justice,” Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., said. “The facts contained in This specific memo are jaw-dropping as well as also demand full transparency.”

The rallying cry to “Discharge the memo” has exploded both online as well as also in Congress. The hashtag #releasethememo went viral on Twitter as well as also some other social media sites on Thursday, as well as also Republican members of Congress issued statements of alarm about its contents.

“I am shocked to read exactly what has taken place. I would certainly think that will the item would certainly never happen in a country that will loves democracy as well as also freedom,” Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., said Thursday on the House floor. “the item can be time that will we become transparent in all of This specific.”

While still classified to the public, the four-page memo has become an instant fixation online — thanks in part to Russian propaganda accounts, according to a website claiming to track Russian influence in real time.

The website Hamilton 68, named after one of the Federalist papers authored by founding father Alexander Hamilton, claims to track 0 Twitter accounts “linked to Russian influence operations.”

The site’s analytics show activity for #releasethememo increased in frequency among the tracked accounts by 265,100 percent within the last 48 hours.

The push through some Republicans follows the Discharge of intelligence-gathering firm Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson’s testimony before the House Intelligence Committee. The prior week, Simpson’s testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee was released by Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California.

The memo was disclosed for House members following a party-line vote by the House Intelligence Committee. the item can be currently only available to House members in a classified briefing room called a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility.

President Donald Trump on Friday signed a reauthorization of FISAt, assuring Americans in a tweet that will This specific edition of the bill was “NOT the same FISA law that will was so wrongly abused during the election.”

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Democrat Adam Schiff of California, a ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, called the memo a “profoundly misleading set of talking points drafted by Republican staff attacking the FBI as well as also its handling of the investigation.”